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The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats
- M. Coll, C. Piroddi, +35 authors E. Voultsiadou
- Medicine, Geography
- PloS one
- 14 May 2010
The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hot spot. Here we combined an extensive literature analysis with expert opinions to update publicly available estimates of major taxa in this marine… Expand
Impacts of biological invasions: what's what and the way forward.
- D. Simberloff, J. Martin, +11 authors Montserrat Vilà
- Medicine, Biology
- Trends in ecology & evolution
- 2013
Study of the impacts of biological invasions, a pervasive component of global change, has generated remarkable understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of the spread of introduced… Expand
Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea—which, when, where, why?
- B. Galil
- Biology
- Hydrobiologia
- 12 April 2008
A critical evaluation of more than 2,200 publications, some dating back to the late 1800s, established the presence, and traced the spatio-temporal spread, of 558 alien metazoan species in the… Expand
Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean sea
- B. Galil
- Biology
- Biological Invasions
- 1 February 2009
Abstract573 alien marine metazoan species have been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea. The present checklist is the first to present the species’ native range, presumed mode of introduction, spatial… Expand
A Sea Under Siege – Alien Species in the Mediterranean
- B. Galil
- Biology
- Biological Invasions
- 1 June 2000
Exotic macrophytes, invertebrates and fish are found in most coastal habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean Sea has been subjected to introductions of non-indigenous species by ship… Expand
Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable
- R. Danovaro, J. B. Company, +14 authors A. Tselepides
- Medicine, Biology
- PloS one
- 2 August 2010
Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of terrestrial and… Expand
Crustacea Decapoda: Review of the genera and species of the family Polychelidae Wood-Mason, 1874
- B. Galil
- Biology
- 2000
Les Polychelidae sont des crustaces decapodes primitifs de grande taille et peu communs, qui vivent dans les profondeurs des oceans jusqu'a 5000 m et entre les latitudes 50°N et 55°S. Une etude des… Expand
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A Sea Change — Exotics in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
- B. Galil, A. Zenetos
- Geography
- 2002
The eastern Mediterranean is susceptible to biological invasions because of its placement between the Atlantic, Pontic and Erythrean regions, busy maritime traffic, and lagoons and bays that are… Expand
First record of Mnemiopsis leidyi A. Agassiz, 1865 (Ctenophora; Lobata; Mnemiidae) off the Mediterranean coast of Israel
- B. Galil, N. Kress, T. Shiganova
- Biology
- 2009
* Corresponding author Abstract The American comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, was first noted off the central Mediterranean coast of Israel on 3 March 2009, when a swarm interfered with the operation… Expand
Going to the source: role of the invasion pathway in determining potential invaders
- M. Wonham, W. C. Walton, G. Ruiz, Annette M. Frese, B. Galil
- Biology
- 31 May 2001
Biological invasions are an increasing agent of change in aquatic systems, and ballast- water transfer in ships is a leading pathway of these invasions. During sequential stages of ballast transfer… Expand